Forget Net Neutrality. What Americans Need Is Net Competition
Here's what the FCC can do to achieve real competition in the provision of broadband access
A Verizon technician prepares fiber-optic cables to install to a manhole in New York.
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Is the entire concept of net neutrality about to become irrelevant?
The Federal Communications Commission has just officially published its final order mandating net neutrality—rules that prohibit the cable and telephone giants that control broadband access to the Internet from blocking or throttling traffic, from setting up paid fast lanes for certain content providers, and from otherwise discriminating against services they don’t own (like Netflix) to advantage those they do (like Comcast’s Xfinity On Demand).